If I hear that they like it, it's cheapest, etc any answer that is not "sticky" will last for years, I don't rent to them.

What causes sticky wall?

Read the sticky thread in the Rental Property forum)NOI: $750:Payment: $1019 ($170K, 6%, 30 years)Monthly loss: $319.If you get the rents you expect, its not quite so bad because of the higher rent from your roommates.

If you are planning on the new tenant/buyers living in the house past 6 months you will likely need to convey title to avoid the sticky executory contract issues.

The 50% rule is described and debated at great length in several sticky posts (at the top of the list) in the Landlording forum.

Check out the sticky tenant screening thread.

@Pam Rice I agree that charging interest does not seem right but he and I decided that there will be penalties if he does not reimburse on the schedule that he set for it.

The monthly numbers (good sticky on the main page) are going to indicate how things are going, but is there anything in particular that should be paid attention to that may be inflated?

There is a sticky post in the wholesaling forum that gives a bunch of methods for doing that.Then we have these threads to also help with how to lend:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/49/topics/18862-how-to-become-a-private-lenderhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/50/topics/74335-how-to-become-a-hard-money-lender

It would help if there was a sticky on wholesaling that really broke everything down.